"calamitous state" is a grammatically correct construction and it is commonly used in written English.
It refers to a dire or disastrous situation or condition. Example: The country was in a calamitous state with widespread poverty, political corruption, and natural disasters plaguing the population.
Baghdad's hospitals were in a calamitous state.
His stance is somewhat understandable, given the calamitous state of the Knicks.
"At last," Mr. Banville writes, Petra has found "a calamity commensurate with her calamitous state of mind".
In its modest fashion, Film Comment Selects helps offset the calamitous state of foreign-language film distribution by highlighting work that hasn't (yet) inspired the love and guts it takes to put a subtitled movie in American theaters.
"We have seen the truly calamitous state of the Tory party, as once again the prime minister is forced to concede ground to hold together her unholy alliance of MPs," he said.
Signs of a Calamity Clues to the calamitous state of the country can be found even in recent articles tucked into Mr. Mugabe's mouthpiece, The Herald, the only daily newspaper he has allowed to keep publishing.
Clearly the period from mid-2007 mid-2009009 represented a near-calamitous economic state worldwide.
Acknowledging that her vote for the anti-gay law might have been calamitous for the state's economy, Ms. Foyler placed the blame for it squarely on the shoulders of one group: the gays themselves.
His calamitous compositions land somewhere between Philip Guston, Dana Schutz, and Helmut Middendorf.
The Trump-Brown exchange ignores what many experts consider core reasons for fire's escalating toll: Humans keep sparking them, and Californians keep building in high-fire zones prone to the fierce winds that inevitably drive the state's most calamitous blazes.
While other cities and states grapple with calamitous balance sheets and mass layoffs, Mr. Bloomberg proposed a $65.6 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year, about the same size as the current budget.
